If you'd told me I'd end up having some of my most interesting art conversations with a chatbot, I'd have laughed you out of the room. But here we are. This is where those conversations live — essays on photography, AI, and the gaps in the record—some written solo, some hashed out with Claude or ChatGPT, until one of us said something worth keeping.
Teaching ChatGPT the Shape of Your Voice
A reusable AI skill is not magic. It is a way of teaching the machine what not to erase: your voice, your cadence, your point of view, and the lived experience underneath the sentences. This essay uses the creation of a “Diana voice” skill as an example of how artists and writers can use AI without letting it flatten them.